By Frank and Mary Hoffman - 3 Feb 2010

God's creation intent was to have marriage here on earth, which began
with Adam and Eve in Eden, so we cannot really use the lack of marriage in
heaven as a valid comparison.

As we mentioned before, the key to compassion is Jesus' teaching, and if
He did not have compassion for the pigs, He would violate His other
teachings, whether or not it specifically mentioned in the pigs passage.
It's not want we want it to be. It a Biblical fact.

Think about something. For a human being to harm another living being,
they must first lose their empathy for that particular being, and in the
process the harden their heart to some degree, and the more this happens the
harder they become until their empathy is gone and they become psychopathic.
We believe that this is also one of the reason that Paul says that love is
the greatest of all the spiritual gifts.

Peter's vision was so that he would go to the home of Cornelius, which is
the reason Jesus said all animals were clean, but Peter stayed firm in not
killing and eating them.

We don't need to eat any animal products; in fact, we'd be a whole lot
healthier if we ate an unprocessed plant based diet. And in the process we
would have a lot less violence in the world.

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